CBS ClimateCAP Fellows: Innovating Solutions for a Sustainable Future
To Help Scale Climate Finance, MDBs Must Seek Replicable Leverage
Combining public priorities with private investments is the key to climate action – but speed is of the essence.
When Fragile Insurers Meet Climate Change, Taxpayers End Up on the Hook
New research from Professor Parinitha Sastry and her co-authors examines the challenges facing Florida’s homeowners insurance market.
New Research Introduces New Approach to Estimating Cost of Reducing Emissions
Columbia Business School Research Suggests the Leading Models for the Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas are Incomplete
How Treating Carbon as a Risky Financial Asset Reveals the Immediate Need for Emission Reductions
Columbia Business School research employs a novel financial-economic model to depict how current carbon pricing could prevent climate risks
Opportunities and Challenges Inside the Booming Climate Tech Market
Three central takeaways emerged from the 2024 Climate Business & Investment Conference, which gathered established industry leaders, startups, investors, and researchers to discuss the climate tech market's progress and needed adjustments.
Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth
Improving energy efficiency is not enough for advocates of degrowth, who espouse energy sufficiency as the best way to fight climate change. But their argument is absurd: using limited inputs more efficiently is the definition of economic productivity – which, in turn, boosts growth.
The SEC's New Climate Rule Is a Reasonable Political Compromise in an Election Year
The climate reporting genie is out of the bottle although the cost of a less prescriptive SEC rule is reporting inconsistencies across jurisdictions and fully delegating materiality assessments to the firm.
Will We Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change?
In this episode, host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Professor Bruce Usher on how we have the technological ability to solve the problem of climate change, but that the political will is lacking in the United States and internationally. Usher says that business, then, is going to have to take the lead.